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The story: A Japanese general and his men disguise themselves as monks in order to pass an enemy border patrol. Kurosawa’s The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail was based on a medieval episode that also forms the basis for a Noh drama, Ataka, and a more popular Kabuki play, Kanjiko. Aware of its…

Todd Solondz’s offbeat and melancholy indie comedy movie Wiener-Dog will be released on DVD and Digital on January 23, 2017 via Picturehouse Entertainment. Director Solondz resurrects Dawn Wiener, the awkward lead from his 1995 hit film Welcome to the Dollhouse – here, the character is played by actress Greta Gerwig. She appears in just one…

Cinema is the thing that gives life to that which never existed and brings back to life that which is dead. Even before the invention and popularization of photography, something was missing. That something was the expression of movement. Cinema liberated the plastic arts from stillness and, eventually, the audience from Renaissance conventions. Film is…